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"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
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"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."
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"Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence."
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice."
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"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
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"I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens."
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"There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be."
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"I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel."
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"In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary."
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"My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."
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"I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that."
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"Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research."
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"In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination."
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